A. Will B. Are C. Has D. Do

48. ( ) He can hardly swim, _______ he?

A. does

B. doesn’t

C. can

D. can’t

49. ( ) The famous writer _______ a new book in the past two years.

A. is writing

B. was writing

C. wrote

D. has written

50. ( ) The book is very useful. _______, it isn’t expensive.

A. In other words B. What’s more

C. As a result

D. More or less

51. ( ) You are _____ to shake hands with the foreign guest.

A. wished

B. allowed

C. taken

D. supposed

52. ( ) Is _______ necessary to finish the work before Tuesday?

A. this

B. that

C. it

D. he

53. ( ) Can I _____ the game?

A. take part in

B. join

C. take part

D. take into

54. ( ) He made a ____ after he had a long talk with his parents.

A. decide

B. decided

C. decision

D. decision-maker

55. ( ) He can speak French _____ English

第三部分： 语言综合运用（共两题，满分45分）

VII. 阅读理解: （共20小题；A、B、C篇每小题2分，D篇每小题1分，满分35分）

(A)

On Christmas Eve——the night before Christmas Day——children all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.

Father Christmas is very kind and hearted. He gets to the top of each house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with Christmas presents.

Of course, Father Christmas isn't real. In Jim and Kate's house, \Green. Mr. Green doesn't climb down the chimney. He waits until the children are asleep. Then he quietly goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings with small presents. When they were

A. as well as

B. most of all

C. including

D. better

very young, Mr. Green sometimes wore a red coat. But he doesn't do that now. The children are no longer young, and they know who \the end of their beds.

56. ( ) Christmas Eve is __________. A. the night of Christmas Day C. Christmas Day

57. ( ) Father Christmas often puts presents ________. A. into children’s hats C. into children’s beds

58. ( ) When the children were very young, __________. A. they didn't know who Father Christmas was B. they knew that Father Christmas wasn't real C. they thought their father was Father Christmas D. they knew who put the presents into their stockings

59. ( ) When the children are older, they __________. A. know that Father Christmas is real

B. ask their mother to fill their stockings with presents C. know that Father Christmas is really their father D. know that Father Christmas is really their friend

60. ( ) Father Christmas comes into the house through the ________. A. chimney B. back door C. front door D. window.

(B)

判断正误，正确的写A，错误的写B。

Chinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people all over the world. It is also

B. into children’s stockings D. into children’s shoes B. the evening of Christmas Day D. the night before Christmas Day

called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year. The exact date of the Spring Festival on the Western calendar(日历) changes from year to year. However, Chinese New Year takes place between January 1 and February 19.

On the Chinese calendar every year has an animal's name. These animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. A Chinese legend（传说） says that these twelve animals had a race. The first year was named after the rat, the winner. The other eleven years were named according to the order in which the animals arrived in the race. The clever rat jumped onto the ox's back, and then at the end jumped over the ox's head to arrive first! The Chinese believe that a person born in a particular（特别的） year has some of the characteristics（性格）of that animal.

61. ( ) Chinese New Year falls on the same day every year. 62. ( ) The rat won the first place in the race.

63. ( ) The monkey ran faster than the dragon in the race.

64. ( ) The Chinese can choose the animal they like for his birthday. 65. ( ) The Chinese name every year with an animal’s name.

(C)

信息匹配。根据短文内容，从所给五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，有一个选项为多余项。

A funny thing happened to my sister Tina last month. She lives in Japan and teaches English. In Japan, people don’t usually wear their outdoor shoes. So her school has a special place for shoes. ____(66)_____

Tina teaches English in the evening. One Friday, she went to school, and ____(67)______. Then she had an interesting spoken English class with her students. ______(68)______ But to her surprise, her shoes weren’t in the box. There was only one pair of shoes, and they weren’t her shoes! She had to get home in a hurry, _____(69)____ .

On Monday, at her next English class, her shoes were in a shopping bag on her desk! There was a note that said, “I’m so sorry I took your shoes by mistake!”_____(70)_____ Somebody felt a lot of shame!

A. It’s a shoe box. B. Tina is my sister.

C. so she put on the shoes and left. D. After class she got ready to leave. E. But there was no name on the note. F. she put her shoes in the shoe box as usual. 66.________

(D)

阅读下面的短文，然后按要求补充信息。

Jimmy started painting when he was three years old, and when he was five, he was already very good at it. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid a lot of money for them. They said, \these pictures for a lot more money.\

Jimmy's pictures were different from other people's because he never painted on all of the paper. He painted on half of it, and the other half was always empty.

\

One day somebody bought one of Jimmy's pictures and then said to him, \tell me this, Jimmy. Why do you paint on the bottom half of your pictures, but not on the top half?\

\71. Jimmy was good at _______.

72. Jimmy ____ painted on all of the paper. 73. Jimmy’s pictures were beautiful and _____.

74. People thought Jimmy was ______ to paint half of the paper. 75. Jimmy was too _____ to paint on the top half of the paper.

67._________

68._______

69._______

70._______